From Critical Facilities Technician to Senior Critical Facilities Technician in Australia
A step up the ladder, typically 2 years.
Skills to build
What a Senior Critical Facilities Technician needs beyond a Critical Facilities Technician.
Procedures and documents
- Carry out a method of procedure (MOP) Up to Leads others
- Follow an emergency operating procedure (EOP) Up to Independent
- Work within change management Up to Independent
- Write and review a MOP Independent
Safe isolation
- Isolate and lock out a single energy source Up to Leads others
- Isolate plant with several energy sources Up to Independent
- Authorise isolations Independent, desirable
Monitoring and response
- Triage DCIM and BMS alarms Up to Leads others
- Read trends and capacity Up to Independent
Leadership
- Coach and assess others Independent
- Supervise contractors and vendors Independent
Power transfer and generation
- Operate a static transfer switch Independent
- Respond to a utility failure Up to Independent
- Start, load-test and stop a generator Up to Independent
- Transfer and retransfer at an ATS by hand Up to Independent
- Restore the site from a black start Assisted, desirable
LV distribution
- Operate LV switchboards and breakers Up to Independent
UPS and batteries
- Put a UPS into bypass and return it Up to Independent
- Respond to a UPS alarm Up to Independent
Cooling plant
- Respond to rising temperatures Up to Independent
- Restart cooling in an emergency Independent
- Start, stop and change over chillers Up to Independent
Commissioning
- Run functional performance tests Up to Independent
- Take part in integrated systems testing Up to Independent
BMS and fire
- Inhibit and restore gas suppression Assisted
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Sources and licences
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)
- Units of competency from training.gov.au, © Commonwealth of Australia, captured 2026.10. Kept as published. (Training package content, © Commonwealth of Australia: kept as published, no adapted copies)
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA – Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0, and its correspondence to ISCO-08. CC BY 4.0. (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)